EDDAS. The Icelandic works known as the Eddas form our most important sources for Scandinavian mythology. The Poetic Edda is a collection of alliterative poems. First in the Danish Royal Library (hence the collection's name, Codex Regius), this...

The term Edda (Plural: Eddas or Icelandic plural: Eddur) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century, although some of the poems included in them may be centuries...

Crammed into a quaint house in north London is one of the largest private archives of newspaper and magazine clippings from the past two centuries. Edda Tasiemka, an eighty-two-year-old native of Hamburg, Germany, built and oversees the ever-growing collection. Tasiemka, who fields dozens...

Edda Mussolini: born Forli, Italy 1 October 1910; married 1930 Galeazzo Ciano (died 1944; two sons, and one son deceased); died Rome 9 April 1995. In her youth, Edda Ciano represented the Italian Fascist regime's ideal "new woman" - no mere wife and...

A British gallery that turned over a photo of two naked girls to police amid child pornography concerns has closed the exhibition at the request of Elton John, who owns the collection.The BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, in Gateshead, northeastern England, said it closed "Thanksgiving,"...

Elton John said Wednesday that he owns a photo of two naked girls taken by award-winning photographer Nan Goldin that was seized by police at a British gallery over concerns it amounted to child pornography.John confirmed ownership of "Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing" in a statement...